Spatial Equity Evaluation of Rural Eldercare Service Resources Based on Accessibility: A Case Study of Huanxian County of Gansu Province, China

Safeguarding the elderly population in the countryside is an inherent requirement for alleviating social conflicts in rural areas and effectively carrying out China’s Rural Revitalization.The existing spatial mismatch between rural elderly service facilities and pop-ulation distribution in China aggravates the imbalance of facility resource space,how to improve the accuracy of demand and supply results and better measuring the spatial fairness of elderly service is significant to realize the optimal allocation of rural elderly service.Based on the above,this study pays attention to the refined needs of the elderly population,and focuses on the spatial equity of the rural elderly facilities,to make up for the short boards of the basic public services in the countryside and realize the all-round rural revitalization.This study takes Huanxian County in the hilly loess area of Longdong,China as an example and explores the spatial equity of rural elderly services by using the Urban Spatial Network Analysis(UNA)to measure the accessible quantity and supply capacity of elderly services.The results found that there were 553 rural eldercare service facilities in Huanxian County,including 285 eldercare facilities and 268 medical and health facilities,and the spatial distribution is characterized by a southward shift in the east and uneven regional distribution.Overall,the supply capacity of rural pension services was generally good,with the township center as the gathering point and spreading out in a faceted manner,with nearby townships forming a contiguous area;however,there were strong contrasts and obvious differences in the strength of supply capacity.However,the spatial equity of rural eldercare service was poor.In 42.05%of the eld-erly population grid cells,eldercare service spatial equity was extremely low.The spatial distribution also presented a northern preference over the southern,a western preference over the eastern,and a concentration along the highway.The study explored the realization of spatial equity in the optimal allocation of rural elderly services based on paying attention to the refined needs of the rural elderly pop-ulation,a vulnerable group,to provide a reference for solving the shortcomings of basic public services in rural areas.The fair allocation of rural elderly services demands that the spatial optimization of facility layout be organically coordinated with policy,management,and post-maintenance,and all elements in the rural territorial system be fully mobilized to achieve the basic guarantee of China’s rural elderly problems.

Research on the Influence of Equity Structure on Corporate Performance

Equity structure constitutes a crucial component of corporate internal governance.A scientifically and reasonably structured equity system aids in enhancing the level and efficiency of corporate governance.Through empirical analysis of data spanning from 2013 to 2022,the study aims to verify the influence mechanism of equity structure on corporate performance.The results indicate that enhancing equity concentration and balance positively impacts corporate performance,with this effect persisting over time.Consequently,optimizing the degree of equity concentration,shareholder types,and the board of directors’structure can assist enterprises in maximizing long-term value.

Balancing Academic and Artistic Merit:Equity Concerns for Dance Students in China’s College Entrance System

This study explores the effects of recent changes in China’s dance college admissions,which now equally weigh academic and professional performance.While the policy aims to create fairer admissions,it presents challenges for students from specialized dance programs(keban),who may struggle with academic demands.In contrast,academically strong students with limited dance training may gain an advantage.The research highlights the policy’s mixed impact and proposes flexible admissions strategies,such as conditional offers and ongoing academic support,to better accommodate students with diverse abilities.The study underscores the importance of refining these policies to ensure greater equity and cultural diversity in dance education.

Research on the Impact of Equity Pledge on Company Value

This article aims to provide a literature review on the impact of equity pledges on corporate value,and to explore in depth the application of equity pledges as a financial tool in corporate governance and capital operation,as well as its multidimensional impact on corporate value.By reviewing and analyzing relevant literature both domestically and internationally,this article first defines the basic concept of equity pledges and then elaborates on the impact mechanism of equity pledges on company value from both positive and negative perspectives.In terms of positive impact,this article explores how equity pledges can promote corporate financing,optimize capital structure,and enhance the control of major shareholders over the company.In terms of negative impacts,the possible control risk,market risk,and potential damage to the interests of small and medium-sized shareholders brought about by equity pledges were analyzed.Furthermore,this article also discusses the differences in the impact of equity pledges on company value in different scenarios and proposes corresponding policy recommendations and research prospects.

Research on the Mechanism and Strategy of Equity Investment Driving the Transformation of New Material Innovation Achievements

Under the wave of global technological revolution,the new materials industry is facing difficulties in innovation and transformation.Equity investment has become a key driving force due to its flexible mechanism,risk sharing,and deep participation.Based on introducing the current development status of China’s new materials industry,this article reveals the mechanism of equity investment in financial support,risk management,incentive constraints,and resource integration.The article proposes optimization strategies,such as building an information-sharing mechanism and a diversified investment fund system,to promote the high-quality development of the new materials industry driven by innovation and provide strategic guidance for policymakers,investors,and enterprises.

人工智能大语言模型在基层医疗卫生服务中的应用与挑战

基层医疗系统是实现健康公平的关键。我国面临医疗资源分布不平衡、基层医生数量短缺以及慢性病防治形势不容乐观的严峻挑战。人工智能大语言模型在医疗系统中发挥出了强大优势,本文深入探讨了大模型在基层医疗系统中的应用及其面临的挑战,提出应进一步深化大模型的应用,以辅助基层医生常见病诊疗,推动智能化健康教育和慢性病管理,托底“老少边穷”地区基层卫生服务,激发全科医学的飞跃性发展,并推进大模型在全科诊疗与基层卫生服务中的产业化,为健康中国建设提供重要支撑。

STUDY OF REENGINEERING THE STOCK EQUITY STRUCTURE IN CHINESE STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISE REFORM

In this paper,it is first briefly described the basic situation and current policies of state owned enterprise reform in China.Then the major issues in the reform process are identified,the possible solutions in terms of reengineering stock equity structure and state share circulation are discussed,and finally some suggestions are made for the further state owned enterprise reform.Basing on the theory on the modern corporation system,relevant experiences of market economy nations and the practice of Chinese enterprise system reform.The approaches to determine the proportion of state share in the future corporations are proposed.Since the public ownership is not ideologically appropriate,the establishment of social security fund and mutual fund investment companies are suggested as new and acceptable pattern of public ownership.It is believed that these companies will be the major institutional shareholders in the future corporations.Their stock equity structure would mainly consist of institutional shareholders,which will be both consistent with international norms of modern corporations and with socialist public ownership with Chinese characteristics.

“寒门贵子”是“补偿”还是“选拔”出来的?——对两所精英大学2018—2023年高校专项计划招生的追踪研究

高校专项计划是我国促进高质量教育公平、破解农村学生上好大学难而出台的一项入学机会补偿政策。综合运用描述性统计方法,本研究对两所精英大学2018—2023年间高校专项计划的选录情况进行了持续追踪研究。从初审、降分、录取人数的总体规模及变化趋势看,近几年高校专项计划政策力度不断加大,越来越多的寒门子弟进入精英高校。同时,精英大学高校专项计划实际招生呈现“补偿不均,选拔有余”的鲜明特点,经济欠发达、教育发展水平薄弱省域的农村学生和学校在该计划中并未获得更多优质高校入学机会的补偿,一个重要原因在于他们在高校自主选拔和高考选拔中处于劣势。为此,应调整高校专项计划招生办法及相关政策,确立“补偿为主,兼顾选拔”的价值导向并切实付诸实践,推进“实质的公平”。

Comments on Montesquieu's Equity Theory

Montesquieu’s equity theory is not only the reflection of sharp confrontation between French bourgeoisie and despotism in the middle period of 18thcentury,but also is the continual caused by British Bacon’s experimentalism and French Descartes’s rationalism,etc.Montesquieu acutely criticized the decayed social order of feudalism,but also showed his compromising,mild,and rigorous character because the revolution had not succeeded yet.Montesquieu considers that"law"exists in anything as well as the beginning and end of human society.The spirit of"natural law"is"peace";the spirit of"man-made law"is"equality".However,in society and country,equality and freedom are lost easily,so they need to be guaranteed by the spirit and power of law.Therefore,not only"virtue","simplicity","restraint",and"toleration",etc.are required,but also power balance is needed.

人工智能时代:智能眼科发展的关键问题思考

智能眼科研究在近年来迅速发展,其临床应用或临床转化过程中仍然存在一些挑战。智能眼科发展过程中,两个亟待解决的重要问题就是:推进临床应用和维护医疗公平。针对上述问题,文章分析了智能眼科临床应用推进的不足和潜在医疗公平的挑战这两个方面的原因和现状,提出了推进临床应用和维护医疗公平智能眼科发展的关键问题,同时系统提出了相应的具体措施,以促进智能眼科的发展。

股权回购型对赌协议的基本原理与效力认定

以股权回购为常见形式的对赌协议,是一种具有商业惯例因素并符合企业经营内在逻辑的投资工具,属于狭义的非典型合同,背后的学理基础在于诚实信用原则。中国关于股权回购型对赌协议的规范性文件通常认可其法律效力,其中包括但不限于纪要对司法审判的影响。既往司法实践对于协议的效力认定经历了两个阶段的发展:第一阶段在于认定协议的合法性,“华工案”的裁判思路反映出对双方当事人交易的自主意愿的尊重。第二阶段是协议的可执行性问题,一方面需要结合资本维持和清偿能力标准判断协议的可履行性;另一方面在具体的履行程序上,协议双方当事人也要事先做好周密安排。

公平视角下的TOD模式研究进展与展望

在传统TOD模式中,尽管城市发展得到了促进,但地价上涨等导致的社会不公平问题逐渐显现。ETOD(equitable transit-oriented development)则通过强调公平性,为弱势群体提供更多的保障性住房和便捷的交通服务,文章探讨了公平导向下的交通发展模式,分析了其在国内外的研究进展和应用前景。通过系统的文献综述,结合国内外相关文献,识别了ETOD领域的研究趋势和空白。重点分析了ETOD模式下的住房公平性和交通公平性问题,并强调了拓展ETOD研究范围以涵盖环境可持续性和无障碍设计原则的必要性,充分揭示了ETOD在解决社会不公平问题方面的潜力。

Analysis and outlook of applications of blockchain technology to equity crowdfunding in China

Equity crowdfunding via the Internet is a new channel of raising money for startups.It features low barriers to entry,low cost,and high speed,and thus encourages innovation.In recent years,equity crowdfunding in China has experienced some developments.However,some problems remain unsolved in practice.Blockchain is a decentralized and distributed ledger technology to ensure data security,transparency,and integrity.Because it cannot be tampered with or forged,the technology is deemed to have great potential in the finance industry.This study examines current problems in the practice of equity crowdfunding in China.Based on the analysis of the characteristics of blockchain technology,this study further explores its practical applications in equity crowdfunding.1)Blockchain technology may be a secure,efficient,low-cost solution for the registration of stocks and shares of a firm financed by crowdfunding;2)Blockchain technology simplifies the transaction and transfer of crowdfunding equities,and thus facilitates their circulation;3)Blockchain technology enables peer to peer transactions between investors and entrepreneurs,and solves the problems of regulatory compliance and security of fund management;Blockchain technology can be used to develop a voting system for crowdfunders,which enables them to be involved in corporate governance.This helps protect the rights and interests of small investors;5)Blockchain technology helps regulators know about market conditions,and supports regulatory activities such as managing investors and fighting money laundering.

Impact of State Equity Participation on Family Enterprises’ Innovation Input

Whether the mixed-ownership reform whereby the state invests in nonstate enterprises will be effective is a question that has attracted widespread attention and discussion.This paper uses sample data from family-owned enterprises listed from 2009 to 2016 and empirically tests the impact of equity participation by the state in the family enterprises on their innovation input and the underlying mechanisms.Our results show that state investment has positive impacts on innovation input in the family enterprises.This effect is even more significant for high-tech family enterprises and/or those family enterprises confronting high policy uncertainty.Our results also reveal that when state investment is accompanied by a greater degree of state participation in enterprise operations or when the investment originates locally,there is a greater increase in innovation input.Further analysis of the underlying mechanisms reveals that state investment increases innovation input by increasing both willingness to innovate and the resources available for innovation.This paper provides new theoretical support and empirical evidence for pushing the mixed-ownership reform and stepping up the sustainable development of non-state enterprises including family ones.

Regional Equity and Influencing Factor of Social Assistance in China

Social assistance is the last safety net in the social security system and plays a vital role in poverty alleviation in countries around the world. Promoting the equal financial assistance is meaningful to achieve equalization of social assistance. Based on the provincial panel data from 2002 to 2017, this paper analyzes the dynamic characteristics and main influencing factors of the equity of social assistance in China, using the Theil index and geographically weighted regression(GWR) model. The results suggest that the level of per capita social assistance expenditure(PSAE) in China keeps increasing year by year, but the changes in different regions and provinces are quite different. These changes not only significantly changed the spatial pattern of PSAE in China, but also greatly improved its spatial coupling with the deeply impoverished areas. Further analysis shows that the regional inequality of PSAE between provinces is obvious during the study period, and the inter-regional inequality is significantly higher than the intra-regional inequality.This makes inter-regional inequality become the main source of the regional inequality of PSAE in China for a long time. According to GWR results, there is obvious spatiotemporal heterogeneity in the influence intensity and direction of the per capita financial revenue,urbanization rate, urban unemployment rate, natural disaster-affected area, and transfer payment intensity on the PSAE. The urbanization rate and per capita financial revenue are the main driving factors of PSAE, and the impact intensity of per capita financial revenue tends to strengthen. The remaining three factors have a positive effect on PSAE, but the effect intensity is not high.

COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation: Modeling Health Outcomes and Equity Implications of Alternative Strategies

Given the scarcity of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines,a chief policy question is how to allocate them among different sociodemographic groups.This paper evaluates COVID-19 vaccine prioritization strategies proposed to date,focusing on their stated goals;the mechanisms through which the selected allocations affect the course and burden of the pandemic;and the main epidemiological,economic,logistical,and political issues that arise when setting the prioritization strategy.The paper uses a simple,agestratified susceptible–exposed–infectious–recovered model applied to the United States to quantitatively assess the performance of alternative prioritization strategies with respect to avoided deaths,avoided infections,and life-years gained.We demonstrate that prioritizing essential workers is a viable strategy for reducing the number of cases and years of life lost,while the largest reduction in deaths is achieved by prioritizing older adults in most scenarios,even if the vaccine is effective at blocking viral transmission.Uncertainty regarding this property and potential delays in dose delivery reinforce the call for prioritizing older adults.Additionally,we investigate the strength of the equity motive that would support an allocation strategy attaching absolute priority to essential workers for a vaccine that reduces infectionfatality risk.

Equity of access to long-term care among the Korean elderly

The aim of the current study is to examine the extent to which equity in the utilization of longterm care services has been achieved in the Republic of Korea (hereafter Korea), based on the Aday—Andersen Access Framework that takes into consideration a series of variables hypothesized as predictive of utilization. The current study used cross-sectional survey data collected and conducted by the Korea Labor Institute (KLI) between August 1 to December 22, 2006. The sample for this study was 5544 persons who are older than 60 years. The study was extracted from a larger nationally representative cross-sectional survey of 10,255 individuals. The stratified cluster sampling technique was used to draw the survey respondents. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect the data from the sample. Descriptive and logistic regression analysis was performed examining the relationship between the dependent variable and the independent variables and the relative importance of factors. The results indicate that a universal health insurance system has not yielded a fully equitable distribution of services. The limitation of benefit coverage as well as disparities in consumer cost-sharing and associated patterns of utilization across plans high out-of-pocket payment can be a barrier to health care utilization, which results in inequity and differential long-term care utilization between sub-groups of older adults. Health policy reforms in Korea must continue to concentrate on expanding insurance coverage, reducing the inequities reflected in disparities in consumer cost-sharing and associated patterns of utilization across plans, and establishing a financially separate insurance system for poor older adults. The behavioral responses of physicians to the method of reimbursement, and the subsequent impact on overall rates of utilization and expenditures need to be more fully understood. In addition, further research is needed to identify the nonfinancial barriers that persist for certain demographic subgroups, i.e., those 70 and older, men, lacking social network members, those who have four or more family members, and those who have no schooling.

An Analysis on Efficiency and Equity of Fixed-Time Ramp Metering

Various traffic management strategies have been developed to alleviate the congestion on freeways. The equity issue has been considered as one of the major challenges for the implementation of some traffic control strategies, especially ramp metering. This paper presents a comparative evaluation of the efficiency and equity performance of a traffic control strategies namely Fixed Time Ramp Metering (FTRM). Instead of focusing on a single equity measure and/or indicator, different approaches to the equity concept are discussed and various equity measures are examined. The equity and efficiency performance of traffic control strategies are compared and evaluated by incorporating them into the simulated corridor. The Bosporus Bridge of Istanbul O-1 Freeway, Turkey is used as a test-bed for the simulation model and the control strategy is employed through microscopic traffic flow simulation software, VISSIM AG. The findings from the simulations show that the equity and efficiency properties of the network vary with the measures and indicators taken into account. The results also suggest that the trade-off between equity and efficiency can be observed for some measures, whereas regarding to other measures the trade-off is not validated.

How does Covid-19 affect global equity markets?

This study applies OLS,panel regression and Granger causality test to investigate the impact of the Coronavirus disease 2019(Covid-19)outbreak on the global equity markets during the early stage of the pandemic.We find that the Covid-19 outbreak has a significant negative impact on the overall equity index return of the eight economies even at 0.1%significance level.Furthermore,the pandemic has a more significant impact on the European countries than on the East Asian economies.The results have three main implications.Firstly,policy makers should react fast to mitigate the impact of a crisis.Secondly,investors should be aware of an outbreak of disease or other risks and adjust their investments accordingly.Furthermore,the Covid-19 outbreak results in a shift of power from the west to the east.

Empirical Study on Customer Equity of the Pesticide Industry

The focus of modern marketing has shifted from products and enterprise level of traditional marketing to customer level,and customer equity is receiving closer attention. No. 1 document of central government proposed innovating agricultural production and operation system and establishing new agricultural business entities. Seizing these customers becomes a great challenge for pesticide enterprises in the new trend. Therefore,pesticide enterprises need to find out key factors driving customer equity,so as to carry out pertinent marketing and grab the maximum market share. Based on the first-hand survey data,this paper analyzed the influence of value equity,brand equity and relation equity on customer equity by factor analysis and structural equation analysis. It found that the relation equity has the highest driving effect,especially training,community building and visiting experience. Finally,it came up with some recommendations to make pertinent marketing.